Is Sycamore Beach Retreat Fantastic Family House 1/2 Block From Beach w/Private W/D, WiFi, Central AC pet-friendly?

No, pets are not allowed at this property.

How much is parking at Sycamore Beach Retreat Fantastic Family House 1/2 Block From Beach w/Private W/D, WiFi, Central AC?

On-site parking is available at the property.

Where is Sycamore Beach Retreat Fantastic Family House 1/2 Block From Beach w/Private W/D, WiFi, Central AC located?

Located in North Beach, this holiday home is steps away from Carlsbad State Beach and Tamarack Beach. Carlsbad Convention and Visitor Information and State Street Farmers Market are also within 15 minutes. Carlsbad Village Station is 13 minutes by foot.

Sycamore Beach Retreat Reviews, Deals & Photos 2026

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

21 Sept 2023

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Lovely beach stay

Location was amazing - so close to the beach and very walkable to Carlsbad Village. Large house with plenty of room! Nice patio with grill. We very much enjoyed our stay.

Stayed 4 nights in Sep 2023

10/10 Excellent

Steve K.

29 Feb 2024

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Carlsbad Gem

This house is fabulous. Great location, extremely comfortable, updated, well stocked kitchen. One minute walk to the beach, many restaurants within 15 min walk, wonderful backyard patio and deck over the garage for views of the sunset. Would not hesitate to rent this house again.

Stayed 10 nights in Feb 2024

10/10 Excellent

Timothy B.

29 Jun 2024

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Wonderful home in a perfect location

We love this home! Lots of space, fun layout, great kitchen, nicely updated/decorated, four nice bathrooms, outdoor shower, garage, patio with ocean view, tons of windows for ocean breezes, nice backyard with a grill, beach chairs/towels/umbrellas... everything you need! It is truly a home away from home. Location is perfect - less than a block from the stairs to the beach and a short, easy walk to the village. We were literally sad to leave. Highly recommend.

Stayed 7 nights in Jun 2024

8/10 Good

Debi J.

26 Feb 2024

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Beautiful property

Everything here was perfect except the master bedroom. The bed was very uncomfortable and there was only lightweight curtains on the window making the mornings very bright.

Stayed 4 nights in Feb 2024

10/10 Excellent

Michael C.

29 Jun 2025

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Beautiful house, fantastic location

Great house and location close to the beach, we enjoyed our stay and would love to stay again

Stayed 7 nights in Jun 2025

10/10 Excellent

Rosella B.

12 Sept 2025

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Great property. Very roomy and comfortable. I stayed with my sisters and two of our childhood neighbors. Six adults. Plenty of beach chairs and even sand umbrellas! I will definitely come back.

Stayed 3 nights in Sep 2025

10/10 Excellent

Anthony

28 May 2023

Liked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities, communication

Great spot, will definitely stay again

Stayed 3 nights in May 2023

10/10 Excellent

Kristine S.

25 Jul 2021

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Beach house

Great location to beach restaurants and stores very spacious updated house!

Stayed 7 nights in Jul 2021

10/10 Excellent

Kristina R.

10 Aug 2018

Great Family Vacation

This house was beautiful! It was literally 5 mins from house to water and a very short walk to shopping and restaurants. We loved our stay here and look forward to future stays!

Stayed 4 nights in Jul 2018

10/10 Excellent

Rachael B.

6 Aug 2019

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Great location in Carlsbad

Property was exactly as pictured. Spacious bedrooms and nice open living space. Two minute walk to beach and five minute walk to restaurants.

Stayed 4 nights in Jul 2019

10/10 Excellent

Peter B.

24 Jul 2020

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Great place steps from the beach

This is the perfect beach home for a family looking for plenty of room to spread out and enjoy the convenience of being able to walk to the beach, restaurants, and shopping without one once of sweat. Highly recommend.....

Stayed 14 nights in Jun 2020

10/10 Excellent

Chris W.

30 Nov 2019

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Roomy, clean and luxurious

Great property, manager made everything easy. Beach 1/2 block away. Highly recommend.

Stayed 3 nights in Nov 2019

10/10 Excellent

Andy J.

26 Jul 2019

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Amazing house, great location!

Access to the beach is very easy from this house. They provide all the beach gear you would need. We will be back.

Stayed 3 nights in Jul 2019

10/10 Excellent

Matt O.

22 Jul 2020

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Perfect Property

This property had everything we needed. Three houses away from the beach and a 5 min walk to all restaurants. Couldn’t have asked for a better place to stay. They also had a bunch of beach toys to bring down to the beach.

Stayed 3 nights in Jul 2020

10/10 Excellent

Roseann L.

16 Feb 2018

lovely, well maintained home

Our stay was perfect in every way. Walking distance down to the beach and town. It was wonderful! This home was equipped with all the necessities except for a hair dryer. Would definitely consider this home again in the future.

Stayed 5 nights in Dec 2017

10/10 Excellent

Jean Q.

14 Mar 2018

Fantastic, perfect for our 50th anniversary celebration!

Check-in was easy, the house welcoming, roomy, has plenty of chairs and tables-in and outdoors, and everything we could want for cooking. It truly couldn’t have been better! The weather was the only negative for us-mostly cloudy with some rain, but there was plenty of room for all of us to lounge around and feel at home.

Stayed 5 nights in Mar 2018

10/10 Excellent

Anne F.

9 Aug 2018

Fantastic location, house and property management

We had four adults and two children and more then enough room during our stay. The house is really fantastic and the location cannot be beat. Walking distance to the beach and to Carlsbad Village. The AC wasn't working when we arrived, but property management team was on it and had portable AC units and then had the AC fixed as soon as possible (within 2 days). We are planning to book again next year!

8/10 Good

Stephanie T.

20 Feb 2018

Perfect location, beautiful home!

We thoroughly enjoyed our stay. The location of this property is perfect for beaching, dining and shopping! The house is spacious and the kitchen was better equipped than my own! The only disappointment was the lack of a king size bed. The listing of bed sizes is inaccurate on VRBO and that was a huge problem for my guests. Should be corrected.

Stayed 5 nights in Feb 2018

This review was submitted before 2018 and has not been verified.

10/10 Excellent

Leslie J.

11 Aug 2017

Beautiful home with all the amenities

This home is recently renovated and no detail has been spared. The house is beautifully done. Very comfortable beds, well equipped (and huge!) kitchen, beach supplies, and proximity to the beach and village was appreciated. I would have enjoyed some movie channels or access to Netflix so I will remember to bring some dvds next time. The managing reality was very helpful and responsive. We had a lovely time with my elderly parents and sisters family. In all, 8 of us fit very comfortably.

Stayed 3 nights in Jul 2017

8/10 Good

Kris H.

10 Jul 2019

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Spacious, comfortable home by the beach

Location is very convenient to the beach, though you have to cross a fairly busy street. Also easy to walk downtown to shops, restaurants, and the train station. The home was beautiful and well appointed. The pictures do not do it justice. Really enjoyed the private backyard patio and oceanview deck. Home is very spacious for a large family and had comfortable beds. Each bedroom has a private bathroom, which was nice. There was a problem with one shower during our stay; however, the management company was quite responsive and resolved the problem. We would return and would recommend the property!

Stayed 7 nights in Jun 2019

This review was submitted before 2018 and has not been verified.

10/10 Excellent

Barbara B.

4 May 2017

A dream beach holiday!!

This was a perfect vacation for my husband and me, and also for our son and friends who came to visit us. It has three generously sized bedrooms, a gourmet kitchen, great outdoor space and lots of cozy places to relax and hang out. Carlsbad is a wonderful little beach town with the prettiest beach, and our house was just 90 steps away from the sand (I counted one morning) and a few minutes walk into town for coffee, shopping or dinner and drinks. We could see the ocean from our bedroom and from the outside deck, and at night the waves lulled us to sleep. The owners could not have been nicer to deal with, and thought of everything. The house is perfectly equipped, tastefully furnished and comfortable. It was as if we were staying at the home of our best friends! I can give this home my very highest recommendation.

10/10 Excellent

Christine B.

20 Jun 2025

Liked: Cleanliness, communication, location

Disliked: Check-in

This is our new summer house

We loved our stay here! Pros - *location, 3 bedrooms with a bathroom in each room, the kitchen!!!, the neighbors, just perfect. The property manager Greg was so responsive & kind! The kitchen has plenty of supplies for cooking and making drinks Need a spot to put something - plenty of cabinet space Water pressure is great. Instant hot water Central AC - works excellent. The light grey paint throughout is much better than the photos of the red. Outdoor shower & place to rinse your sandy feet out front Tons of places to curl up by a window and read a book Beach equipment included - boogie boards, chairs, shovel for sandcastles or digging for sand crabs Master bath - 2 shower heads.Power strip cords to plug in alllll the things by beds - so needed. Cons - The beds and pillows. honestly — terrible. The front door - the instructions for how to open the door are horrible.No spices, no condiments - if you are going to cook you will need to buy everything. Even pepper. Lack of tvs throughout - there is only 2. Living room and large 2 bedroom with 2 beds.

Stayed 4 nights in Jun 2025

8/10 Good

Frederick J.

29 Jul 2019

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Overall really great place

Overall all was great. I would definitely recommend. But giving 4 stars because there are some really easy things that can be done that would make this a five star property: 1. WiFi was next to useless. Had to use cell phone data plan as wireless could not handle basic web surfing 2. Great sizable bedrooms, but shocking no king beds. The master at least should be a king bed not a queen. 3. Basic needs like trash bags, paper towel, soap, etc was available but only super limited quantities. I feel like this owner can turn all 4 star reviews into 5 star, and raise price $50-$100 per night, and easily cover the cost of fixing the above items. These are so easy to fix. All that said, I still recommend and would definitely stay again.

Stayed 7 nights in Jul 2019

8/10 Good

Ray K.

27 Dec 2018

Wonderful property and extremely well appointed. Good location. Issues were hair dryer and soap

Great property and would recommend. Two minor issues contrasted the wonderfully appointed house. With 3 master suites, there was only one hair dryer. Secondly, the bars of soap were not enough. We each had them for our respective sinks, but none for the showers. For such a nice and fairly expensive property, that was pretty cheap. We have stayed in many homes and condos and they always have sufficient soap and small containers of hair products. This is first time they were not supplied. You may see this as minor, but each guest in each room commented on that and it was such a contrast to the overall household amenities. Otherwise, would highly recommend and please pass on to the owners that they have done an exceptional job in appointing everything that you would need for a comfortable stay.

Stayed 3 nights in Dec 2018

10/10 Excellent

Demi D.

29 Jul 2020

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Great location & wonderful home.

Our family loved staying in this home. It was much more spacious than we anticipated which allowed us to spread out. As you walk in the front door, you have a very comfortable living room & office off to the side which allowed my husband privacy to work from home. The dining room & kitchen are also very spacious & plenty of room for our family of 6 to enjoy. My oldest just got married so she was able to enjoy the downstairs bedroom with private bath & queen size bed. Upstairs both the master & second guest bedroom were super spacious. The guest bedroom had 2 queen size beds & the master had a King which I was not expecting from previous review. The master bath is huge & everything has been updated. There is also a loft area in between the 2 upstairs bedrooms which was nice for my 16 year old son to hang out & play video games. That room opens to a nice balcony where you can sit & watch the sunset. There is a TV upstairs & downstairs. The outdoor patio off the kitchen is very private & has a nice barbecue. It also has a spacious 1 car garage with boogie boards, chairs & towels. The location is perfect. It is on a quiet road just a half block to the beach. The stairs to go down to the beach are right at the end of our street which is another bonus. It is also a short 3-5 minute walk into town. We will definitely stay here again. We loved that it was cozy, clean & very comfortable to stay in.

Stayed 7 nights in Jul 2020

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